Axue was the first to stop. He followed the direction of the voice and squatted down to ask kindly, "Are you also from this village? It seems that you are not on the list."
"Don't go anywhere... Lord Bishamonten and Lord Manjushri..."
The little girl just prayed to herself.
"Grandpa Xiu Sanlang said that your paddy fields and seeds are the last hope of our village. I don't want to see my parents starve to death again..."
Xian Taoyuan's eyes suddenly turned red when she heard this. She squatted down and stroked the little girl's head with her delicate hands, saying gently, "Do you want to come back to Kasugayama Castle with us? We have plenty of food over there. You don't have to worry here any longer, child."
"This... is my home..."
Unexpectedly, the little girl shook her head stubbornly.
"Got it. We won't give up until the last moment."
"Really? You're not lying, are you...?"
Axue immediately understood the little girl's intention, and smiled as she stretched out her little finger.
"How about we make a pinky promise?"
"Ok!"
"We've made a promise to each other for a hundred years, and we won't change..."
Torachiyo watched Axue and the little girl make a pinky promise and suddenly made a decision in his heart.
She picked up the hoe in her hand and suddenly returned the way she came!
"Ah Hu! W-What happened to you all of a sudden?!"
Torachiyo ignored her sister's call. She just ran quickly to the field and found the villagers sitting under the tree. She picked up the hoe, pointed at them, and said loudly -
"Hey! Come and help us! Help us build the paddy field again!"
The villagers were stunned, obviously not understanding why Torachiyo said that.
But facing the bewildered villagers, Torachiyo just continued to speak loudly to himself—
"If you fail, feel free to put the blame on me! Anyway, until your last moments, you'll want to put the blame on someone else! Then just put it on me, Torachiyo!"
"Because I am the reincarnation of Bishamonten, the God of War! I am the savior who will definitely save Echigo! Go ahead and put the blame on me!"
"Just nice words!"
The villagers were about to open their mouths to refute, but were shocked by Torachiyo's next words!
"From today on! I will be just like you! From now on I will live in this village! Just like you! From today on I will never have a single meal to eat again!"
Torachiyo's dark golden tiger eyes sparkled, and she had never been as energetic as she was today.
"But you must remember! I, Torachiyo, did not come here to save you! The reason I cultivated the farmland is—"
"I did this because I wanted to! That's why I did this!"
Torachiyo stood in the muddy farmland, his feet stained with mud. He took a long breath and yelled at everyone.
"So don't admit defeat to me! How can you admit defeat on your own?"
The Buddhist martial god smiled sincerely.
"God is watching! At least we should sing and work with a smile on our faces!!"
Xiantaoyuan, who had arrived late, watched as Torachiyo miraculously persuaded the villagers who had been watching indifferently, and watched as those pale and skinny villagers fell silent, picked up their hoes and began to work in the fields alongside this Buddhist martial god.
"Sister, it seems like you... have really grown up..."
Looking at the scene in front of him, this was the feeling that Xiantaoyuan felt from the bottom of his heart at the moment.
As for Axue, he held the little girl's hand and walked slowly to the scene. Listening to Tora Chiyo directing the villagers, the second-in-life Shura in white smiled with satisfaction.
Compared to the Buddhist monk Kagetora Nagao Kagetora in his previous life, this more humane senior brother Torachiyo is the monk he is most familiar with, who smells like sunflowers.
Senior brother is always like this, like a bright sun, who will give all the warmth and light to everyone without reservation.
And in the previous life, I and my senior brother...
Whether it was hurting or being hurt, the two of them cleverly avoided it.
Before they could say the most important words to each other, Axue and Torachiyo had already grown up.
The fight between White-robed Shura and Nagao Kagetora was a nightmare that was too cruel for both of them.
But in this life, everything will be in time.
Starting from this piece of farmland, everything will once again usher in the light it deserves.
Chapter 4700: God’s Will is Hard to Defy ( words)
Torachiyo decided to stay in the village, setting an example by sharing the joys and sorrows with the villagers.
【Sentoin also wanted to stay, but was sternly rejected by Torachiyo. 】
[However, you didn't listen to your senior brother's advice and stayed with him on your own.]
[The two of you found an uninhabited house and temporarily settled down next to the farmland.]
After seeing your two brothers' determination, the villagers came out of their houses and began rebuilding the paddy fields.
"Onee-sama came over again yesterday."
After closing the door and finishing a day's work, Torachiyo sat on the floor and spoke to Axue beside her.
"She said she wanted to bring some food here to feed the whole village."
"Brother, do you think this is feasible?"
Axue sat cross-legged in meditation and just asked Tora Chiyo.
"I do not know."
Torachiyo shook his head.
"Brother is fine, but I'm worried about you, Xue. We haven't eaten for nearly three days. Xue, you're only seven years old now, and I'm very worried about your health."
Three days have passed since they stayed in the village, and during these three days, Torachiyo did not break the promise she made in public. She would eat whatever the villagers ate.
The villagers eat tree bark, so Torachiyo also eats tree bark.
If the bark is eaten up and the villagers eat the dirt, then Torachiyo will also eat the dirt.
It doesn’t matter what happens to Torachiyo, but what she is most worried about is that Axue’s body will not be able to bear it.
"...Xue, you should go back to Kasugayama Castle with Onee-sama tomorrow. I'll take care of things here."
Torachiyo looked at Axue's handsome face, which was now slightly shriveled due to hunger, and said with worry in his eyes.
"Brother, I was the first to propose the idea of resolving the famine. This farmland is something you and I are jointly responsible for. How can I shirk my responsibility and let you suffer alone?"
Axue smiled slightly and reached out to hold her senior brother's cold jade hand.
"Just think of it as a period of self-cultivation."
"...So I thought, why not ask Onee-sama to bring some food over here so that the whole village can eat together."
Torachiyo still couldn't get over the threshold in her heart. She absolutely could not bear to see her younger brother Axue suffer.
But just as he said this, he heard a hurried voice coming from outside the door.
"This must never be done!"
The one who opened the door was the old man Xiuzaburo who was lighting an oil lamp.
His wrinkled face was filled with seriousness. Xiuzabulang said righteously, "This is our own business. We are very lucky to have your help. We will never send food to the village again just because of you!"
“But…”
Torachiyo was about to retort when Hidesaburo closed the wooden door and sighed, "If the village receives extra favor because of your special status, then the villagers' inherent laziness will be aroused again. No one will work as hard to develop the farmland as they do now!"
The old man's almost straightforward words made Hu Chiyo's face a little stiff.
As Hidesaburo said, the villagers are now inspired to rebuild the rice fields because they see Torachiyo setting an example.
If they discover that Torachiyo is suffering from hunger and harming your body, the people of Kasugayama Castle will send food to aid them...
As long as the construction of the farmland is delayed indefinitely, as long as Torachiyo is constantly hungry—
Then the villagers will no longer suffer from famine and will be able to live off their wealth!
Once they understand this truth, no one will devote themselves to building paddy fields anymore!
"But...but my junior brother, my Axue, can't go hungry!"
Hearing Torachiyo's persistent words, Hidesaburo took out a square bag of rice from his arms and handed it solemnly to Torachiyo.
"This is the food I saved for the winter. You can eat it. Don't let other villagers find out."
Hu Chiyo looked at the old man's thin face, then looked down at the rice bag, and subconsciously refused: "No, no! This, this is the food you need to survive the winter, how can you give it to us!"
"Remember what I told you earlier?"
Hidesaburo just gave a loving smile.
"Farming is not a soulless endeavor, Lord Torachiyo. Now that you have listened to the voice of the soil, this is the food you deserve."
"I hear...the sound of soil?"
Torachiyo still looked confused and puzzled, and only heard Hidesaburo further explain.
"This land has been abandoned. Both the people and the land have been treated as waste."
The old man's face looked so sad under the light of the oil lamp.
"Every year, due to floods, almost all crops would be lost. Over time, even Linquan Temple stopped sending people to collect rent. Everyone turned a blind eye to the famine here."
"But those upper-class people don't know that even within this abandoned land, there is a bustling life. The soil that has been continuously infused with life for hundreds of years is completely different from the soil that has never done anything and is still high and mighty!"
"To successfully cultivate the land, everyone needs to work together. Someone needs to remove the stones, someone needs to add fertilizer, someone needs to constantly turn the soil, and someone even needs to bury their own body deep underground!"
Hidesaburo stared deeply at Torachiyo.
"At first, the villagers were very afraid of you because you were dressed in bright clothes, like beautiful wild animals. You had no idea what farmland was, or what farming was. You just pretended to come to the village like those beasts in human clothing, made a scene, and then left."
"Everyone... is very afraid of this happening."
What Hidesaburo said was not made up, it was something that really happened.
Countless officials seem to be sympathetic to the people, but in fact they are just here to carry out useless face-saving projects. After adding brilliant political achievements to themselves, they leave without ever considering how much trouble they have brought to the village.
But Axue and Torachiyo are different, they are here to help the villagers!
"But now you have become the hope of this village and the people everyone trusts the most. So please, Lord Torachiyo, please accept this bag of food. This is my sincere hope for this village."
"............."
Torachiyo has been highly anticipated by others since she was born.
Whether it is the monks of Linquan Temple or the retainers of the Nagao family, they all have great expectations for Torachiyo.
But for people like Hidesaburo and the villagers in this village, Torachiyo is given the most sincere hope...
It really made Torachiyo feel very scared.
"I'm just... just a monster who beats up my brother and doesn't understand human nature..."
Torachiyo looked away and spoke in a low voice.
"Lord Torachiyo, you are definitely not a monster."
Hidesaburo forced the bag of food into Torachiyo's hands.
"You are the savior of our Echigo Province, you are the reincarnation of Bishamonten, the God of War!"
"Take it, Brother."
Axue on the side finally spoke up and persuaded Hu Chiyo to accept the bag of food.
"But there's no need to hide it from everyone. Tomorrow morning we'll cook this bag of grain into a pot of porridge and share it with everyone in the village."
"Child, you..."
When Xiuzabulang heard this, his tense face suddenly became filled with tears.
He hugged Axue tightly, hugging the blind seven-year-old child.
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